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Dec 19, 2008 6:16pm

I HAVE A NEW SITE: amyking.org [amyking.org]


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Amy King is the author of I’m the Man Who Loves You and Antidotes for an Alibi, both from Blazevox Books, The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press), Kiss Me With the Mouth of Your Country (Dusie Press), and forthcoming, Men by the Lips of Women (Pudding House) and Slaves to Do These Things (Blazevox Books), a collaboration with Derrick Tyson.

Amy edits the Poetics List, sponsored by The Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania), moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv (WOMPO) and the Goodreads Poetry! Group, and teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. Her poems have been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and she has been the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry. Amy King was also the 2007 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere. She is currently editing an anthology, The Urban Poetic, forthcoming from Factory School.

For information on the reading series Amy co-curates, go to The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series blog or visit her current blog here.

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EDITORIAL WORK


* The Poetics List (sponsored by The Electronic Poetry Center @ SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania)
* Women’s Poetry Listserv - WOMPO (Moderator)
* New Poetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views (Contributing Correspondent)
* Goodreads - POETRY! Group (Moderator)
* MiPOesias
* miPOradio
* The Stain of Poetry: A Reading Series
* The Urban Poetic (Factory School), forthcoming

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Oct 9, 2008 7:21am

ANNUALS AND PERENNIALS

Telling it so simple, so far away,
as this America, home of the free,
colored ashes smeared on the base
or pedestal that flourishes ways of doubting
to be graceful, wave a slender hand...

We are fleet and persecuting
as hawks or crows.
We suffer for the lies we told, not wanting to
yet cupped in the wristlock of grace,
teenage Borgias or Gonzagas,
gold against gray in bands streaming,
meaning no harm, we never

meant it to, this stream that outpours now
haplessly into the vestibule that awaits.

We have shapes but no power.

-John Ashbery, STATE OF THE UNION - 50 Political Poems (Wave Books)

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Oct 9, 2008 7:21am

From THE HOUR OF THE STAR by Clarice Lispector

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.

Let no one be mistaken. I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. …

In writing this story, I shall yield to emotion and I know perfectly well that every day is one more day stolen from death. In no sense an intellectual, I write with my body. And what I write is like a dank haze. The words are sounds transfused with shadows that intersect unevenly, stalactites, woven lace, transposed organ music. I can scarcely invoke the words to describe this pattern, vibrant and rich, morbid and obscure, its counterpoint the deep bass of sorrow. Allegro con brio. I shall attempt to extract gold from charcoal. I know that I am holding up the narrative and playing at ball without a ball. Is the fact an act? I swear that this book is composed without words: like a mute photograph. This book is a silence: an interrogation.

–From THE HOUR OF THE STAR by Clarice Lispector

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Mar 20, 2008 2:57pm

I'm moving ... amyking.wordpress.com [amyking.wordpress.com]

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Mar 6, 2008 9:56am

Thanks to Jackie Clark for inviting me to participate in the ten part Poets Off Poetry series.

My contribution, "Fed You From The Blood of My Nose: A Medley Melodic," appears under the heading, "In Which Nearly Every Human Knows This Desire."

Lots of links to music you might enjoy, and I hope you do ...

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Feb 14, 2008 9:41am

Please visit ANA and MATT for the fanciest and most polished poetry reading I've ever seen!

These kinds of video clips are proving useful for aspiring poets in the classroom. Wish I had seen them when I was chugging along, guessing at the dark ...

Enjoy!

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Feb 11, 2008 4:06pm

I'M OBSESSED



Well, Rob McLennan asked me some fun questions, so I had to think about me, me, me. I think I had fun with me. Visit me here.

Or go to the complete archive and have fun with lots of other poets like Juliana Spahr, Adeena Karasick, William Allegrezza, Matthew Zapruder, Rosmarie Waldrop, Maxine Chernoff, Cole Swensen, Mairéad Byrne, and about a hundred others!

Industrious much? Thanks lots, Rob!

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Feb 11, 2008 4:04pm

101 poets list books that have been especially important in their artistic development, and offer commentary.

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Feb 10, 2008 4:34pm

a bodyfeel lexicon. (gordon/bozek)  dimestore operetta say. (bowen)  developing poetic ideas. (chirot)
   time space repetition. (armentrout)  vie et pli. (giovenale)  afar buzzing stars. (scappettone)
props of henwifery. (sprague) digress into residency. (berridge)
  laced with forethought. (murphy)   postcard of the. (tate)   I posit no. (fieled)
erratogenic paraparasitic postpoem. (goodland)  erotic false consciousness. (ward) first swifts come. (shaeppi)
will be waxing. (art)   &lipstick&moss&bodice. (carignan) flamenco pierced her. (tabios)
a citizen I. (snyder) engirth, discorrupt, linger. (workman) correspondence, obscure, reveal. (fletcher)
enhanced ego-interference patterning. (orange) fairly clear the. (boyer) telephone as intermediary. (hunter)
vista of verdancy. (stengel)  pale blue twilight. (phipps) (an historical site) magi.
little decisions thrumming. (boykoff)  writing records eden. (farr) production of hormones. (marcacci)
our crops far-flung. (sand)    going not gone. (hofer) informed by light. (compton)  my embroidery she (abulhassan) ruby large enow. (gardner) composition as process. (hayes) like you tiger-shock. (smith)
  distance presence print. (pusateri)    certain fields escape. (muench/allegrezza) fragile engines flashing. (detorie)
the great desire. (nakayasu) behold a glimmering. (quimba) splendid drifts of. (kunz)
salt, line, obedience. (cox/cox-farr) eyes glass hands. (lamoureux)
template, some vicissitude. (mauro)    little red song-book. (newman)  imagistic kinetic dizzy.  (stamatakis)
  a need for. (behm-steinberg)   gaga futurism pales. (cooper)   a lavish spectacle. (deming)
him, wings adjacent. (heide) hands half face. (king)   presently be said. (stempleman) known as "we". (nelligan)
underground I go. (graham)    adorn honour bright. (mangold)  paced awning graces. (klinger)
  courting in earnest. (spahr)  grew inside we. (madison) a running plotline. (janssen)  
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